In Ursula K. Le Guin's famous novel The Dispossessed (1974), we see (perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally) one flaw with anarchosocialism -- it handles logistical issues poorly, due to its refusal to engage in trading in the market to establish the relative values of resources. (Here's my old and perhaps unreasonably-hostile review of ( Read more... )

This happy piece of news from my old home town, New York City. From Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times, "Store Owner Shoots 4 Men, 2 Fatally, During Robbery Attempt in Harlem" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyregion/14shoot.html?_r=4&ref= ( Read more... )

This from the AP, by Delvin Barrett and Tom Hays, in "NY subway terror threat emerges on busy travel day ( Read more... )

Here's the article by Bos Smith regarding the Masjid At-Taqwa and its mad imam, Siraj Wahaj. And it's worse than I thought:

http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/b_smith/2008/print/04292008.htm

The place has played host to a number of notorious ( Read more... )

This shocking story from New York City:

http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1881

Isn’t a public thoroughfare a stated place of safety upon which a private citizen can expect to move from one destination to ( Read more... )

Welcome news for anyone who ever lived in New York City ( Read more... )